Who is the fielding coach?
Who is the base running coach?
Who is the hit the cut off man coach?

Those guys need to go too.

This is a good point. Yeah, they can't hit, but they didn't do much of anything else right, either. Just firing Manto is a sacrificial lamb move, when the team needs an overhaul. There'd better be more coming.

This is a good point. Yeah, they can't hit, but they didn't do much of anything else right, either. Just firing Manto is a sacrificial lamb move, when the team needs an overhaul. There'd better be more coming.

As I mentioned in the 100 loss thread we were watching Rookie League baseball with the Sox this year.

Who is the fielding coach?
Who is the base running coach?
Who is the hit the cut off man coach?

Those guys need to go too.

A lot of that used to be Jeff Cox, who actually did some teaching at the major league level. Cox taught Ramirez how to bunt, Ramirez never having bunted before he came up to the White Sox.

Major league coaching is usually a maintenance thing rather than an instruction thing, although Ted Williams and Charley Lau did some successful instructing at the major league level. Minor league coaches are more often the instructors. Hitting coaches don't teach players to hit at the major league level. They work with them to get the most out of what they can do. Hitting coaches in some organizations and pitching coaches in others tend to be scapegoats. In a few cases (Rudy Jaramillo comes to mind) they get too much credit.

You would have to be part of the team, though, to know if Manto was a scapegoat or if he was having problems working with the hitters.